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  "summary": "CVE-2021-45078 is fixed in 30 products on 1 platform, first by binutils 2.34-6ubuntu1.6, released December 15, 2021. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.",
  "title": "binutils: stab_xcoff_builtin_type in stabs.c in GNU Binutils through 2.37 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-b...",
  "description": "stab_xcoff_builtin_type in stabs.c in GNU Binutils through 2.37 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact, as demonstrated by an out-of-bounds write. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2018-12699.",
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  "epssPercentile": 0.72855,
  "priority": "High",
  "priorityTier": 3,
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  "disclosed": false,
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